Wicked (2003 Original Broadway Cast)
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Free Music Review: Wicked
Hit: 5 Stars
The original product was defective. However, you readily replaced it. I love the music and your service!!Free Music Review: Wicked CD Review
Hit: 5 Stars
It is an outstanding CD. I have seen one play this year and Wicked was it. One of the most outstanding performances I have ever seen. The music is outstanding and on this CD, it was performed to perfection. I recommend this CD without any reservation.Free Music Review: AMAZING
Hit: 5 Stars
This was an amazing purchase following an incredible show. What a great reminder of the imagery created by the performers in the tour group ~ I very much look forward to seeing the show on Broadway.Free Music Review: Worst musical of all time? Probably.
Hit: 1 Stars
Banal, mainstream fluff for the crowd that enjoys musical adaptations of Legally Blond and Disney movies. A great concept completely ruined by music composed for the lowest common denominator. Simply singing your dialogue does not make it a "song" -- and such lame, corny dialogue at that. Utterly agonizing to sit through. Somehow, it managed to knock Phantom off the top of my worst musicals list. If there were a Musicals for Dummies book, this would be the first chapter. Parents do themselves and their children an utter injustice by seeing this; what a way to warp one's conception of what musical theatre can and should be.Free Music Review: Christian rock with Oz references...
Hit: 2 Stars
I know, I know - the vast majorities of reviews gave this top marks, and I'm unlikely to change any minds.
But I bought this soundtrack BEFORE seeing the show - my judgement wasn't affected by the spectacle of the show itself. Wicked (2003 Original Broadway Cast)I had loved the book, and got tickets to see the show here in Tokyo. Knowing that most of the songs would be translated into Japanese, I thought I'd better listen to the soundtrack a few times before seeing it.
As my title says, I felt like most of the big songs (Defying Gravity, for example) were just Christian rock ballads with Oz twists here and there. In "Wonderful," they've managed to create a brand-new potboiler - completely stale, even on the first listening. "Noone Mourns the Wicked" is one of those Lloyd Webber things where everyone is screaming at the top of their lungs. The absolute worst, however, is "Emerald City." The rhythms, forgettable lyrics, and especially the cheesy synthesizer - it sounds like an ad for a local amusement park.
Having said that, I thought there were some nice moments - particularly "Popular." And "Loathing" is even better - why does nobody see that it's a perfect lampoon of the rest of the show's music?